Poor Miles Monroe: unable to make it as a jazz clarinetist, he’s
stuck running a Greenwich Village health food store called the
Happy Carrot, gets “beaten up by Quakers,” and is cryogenically
frozen against his consent. When defrosted, he wakes up into
22nd-century America, which has been taken over by an inept
totalitarian regime that a pack of scientists has enlisted him to
single-handedly overthrow. With nods to George Orwell and 2001: A
Space Odyssey, this hilarious sci-fi spoof inspired Roger Ebert to
hail Allen as “the best comic director and actor in America.”